Cisco VPN DNS Load Balancing and Traffic Steering License
This Cisco platform license enables advanced VPN DNS load balancing and traffic steering for up to 25,000 users, ensuring optimal network performance and availability.
- License Enablement: Unlocks sophisticated DNS-based load balancing and traffic steering capabilities for VPN services.
- Capacity: Supports environments with up to 25,000 users and 100 DNS records.
- Subscription Billing: Provides ongoing access to features and updates through a recurring subscription model.
- Platform Application: Designed for Cisco's network infrastructure platforms, ensuring seamless integration.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco platform license provides essential capabilities for VPN DNS load balancing and traffic steering, designed to manage and optimize network traffic for a large user base. It enables intelligent distribution of user requests across multiple VPN gateways or servers, enhancing application availability and user experience.
Ideal for mid-market to enterprise organizations, this subscription license is utilized by IT Managers and IT Professionals to ensure their business operations have reliable and efficient access to critical resources. It integrates with existing Cisco network infrastructure to provide a unified and high-performing network environment.
- Enhanced Availability: Distributes traffic to prevent single points of failure and maintain continuous VPN access.
- Optimized Performance: Steers users to the most responsive VPN gateway, reducing latency and improving connection speeds.
- Scalable Capacity: Manages up to 25,000 users and 100 DNS records, supporting growing business needs.
- Traffic Management: Provides granular control over traffic flow for improved network efficiency and resource utilization.
- Subscription Model: Offers predictable costs and continuous access to the latest features and security updates.
This Cisco license is the right choice for mid-market teams needing to ensure high availability and performance for their business-critical VPN services.
What This Enables
Enable High Availability for VPN Services
Enable teams to distribute VPN traffic across multiple gateways, preventing service interruptions. Streamline user access by automatically directing connections to the most available and responsive VPN endpoint.
distributed workforce, multi-site operations, business continuity planning, remote access infrastructure
Optimize VPN Connection Performance
Streamline user experience by steering connections to the optimal VPN gateway based on real-time network conditions. Automate traffic management to reduce latency and improve the speed of remote access for all users.
performance-sensitive applications, global workforce, network optimization initiatives, user experience focus
Manage Large-Scale Remote Access
Automate the management of DNS records and traffic steering for up to 25,000 users accessing VPN resources. Enable IT professionals to efficiently scale VPN services without manual intervention.
growing employee base, seasonal workforce fluctuations, large-scale remote work policies, IT resource constraints
Key Features
DNS Load Balancing
Distributes incoming VPN requests across multiple servers or gateways to prevent overload and ensure continuous availability.
Traffic Steering
Intelligently directs users to the most optimal VPN endpoint based on performance metrics, reducing latency.
25,000 User Capacity
Supports large organizations with extensive remote or distributed workforces, ensuring scalability.
100 DNS Records
Provides flexibility in configuring and managing multiple traffic routing policies and destinations.
Subscription Licensing
Offers predictable operational expenses and continuous access to software updates and feature enhancements.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Ensures secure and reliable access to sensitive financial data and trading platforms for remote employees, critical for meeting strict uptime and compliance standards.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Facilitates secure access to patient records and critical systems for healthcare professionals, adhering to HIPAA and other stringent data privacy regulations.
Legal & Professional Services
Provides secure and consistent access to case management systems and client data for legal teams, supporting high availability for billable hours.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Enables secure remote access for engineers and management to operational technology systems and data, crucial for maintaining production schedules and efficiency.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is VPN DNS Load Balancing?
It is a technique that uses DNS to distribute incoming VPN connection requests across multiple VPN servers or gateways. This prevents any single server from becoming a bottleneck and ensures high availability.
How does Traffic Steering work with VPNs?
Traffic steering directs users to the most appropriate VPN gateway based on factors like server load, geographic location, or network performance. This optimizes connection speed and reliability.
Is this license tied to specific hardware?
While designed to work with Cisco network infrastructure, this is a software license. Specific hardware compatibility details are available from Cisco documentation.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.